Practice Management

To best help your patients, you need to understand what they are going through, and the best way to do that is to have hopeful conversations with them that get them talking.

Patient navigation is set to be a pillar within cancer care, but challenges remain.

Certain populations are less likely to receive treatment for breast cancer. Nurses should lead a multidisciplinary team to improve that.

Standardized and focused education for patients receiving CAR T-cell therapy and their caregivers should be part of discharge procedures.

Sam didn’t understand the scope or severity of his illness until his nurse navigator intervened.

Adding patient engagement strategies can help to enhance the research agenda for oncology nursing.

How are patients with cancer triaged at key points throughout their journeys? Who helps them understand their diagnoses or treatments and prioritizes what to do next? Who pulls in the resources needed to make sure patients get what they need as expeditiously as possible?

A nurse navigator uses a simple tool to help a forgetful patient overcome a barrier to care.

Navigating the gray area between excellent professional care and inappropriate behavior can be difficult.

Members of the ACCC have created an online course, Financial Advocacy Boot Camp, to help financial navigators find the funds for their patients.

Tricia Strusowski, MS, RN, discusses the importance of a nurse navigator to both the patient and the center.

Tricia Strusowski, MS, RN, Oncology Solutions, discusses the importance of the nurse navigator role, especially in community oncology settings, at the 2017 ACCC Cancerscape meeting.

Colleen O’Leary, associate director for nursing education, The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital, discusses the vital role nurses play in guiding the treatment of their patients with cancer.

Change is the one word that describes an immediate result of a cancer diagnosis. A patient’s world can be turned upside down, and they could end up facing obstacles including dietary changes, role changes within their family, and even changes in their activities of daily living.

Paula Raska, a research associate from the Cleveland Clinic, discusses a study of patient navigation.

Caring for patients with cancer is an incredible privilege, however, it can also generate considerable stress.

When it comes to coordinating care for patients with cancer, a nurse with oncology certification needs to play a central role in the process.

Are electronic medical records affecting patient care?

A grant from a pharmaceutical company is translating into a win for both the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro and its patients with cancer.

Mark D. Duncan, MD, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses demonstrable metrics that help measure the success of a patient navigation program.

Mary Lou Woodford, from the Cancer Resource Foundation, provides guidance on staying compliant with the new patient navigation accreditation standards from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.

As both patient advocate and educator, the ONN partners with physicians to help support the cancer patient's journey throughout the course of disease, with the ultimate goal of improving care and outcomes.

Facilities seeking Commission on Cancer accreditation now need to have a patient navigation process in place by 2015.